Desde la colonización hasta hoy.
Barbados was originally inhabited by Amerindian peoples, including the Arawak and later the Kalinago, before European contact. The island was claimed by England in 1625 and became a permanent English settlement in 1627, quickly developing into a major sugar-producing colony dependent on enslaved African labor. Barbados remained under continuous British colonial rule for over three […]
The Bahamas was originally inhabited by the Lucayan people, an Arawakan-speaking group, when Christopher Columbus made his first landfall in the Americas on the island of San Salvador in 1492. Spanish colonizers subsequently enslaved and decimated the Lucayan population, leaving the islands largely depopulated for over a century. The English established permanent settlements in the […]
Antigua and Barbuda’s history stretches from its early Indigenous Amerindian settlers through European colonization, the plantation era, and its path to independence. The islands were originally inhabited by the Siboney, Arawak, and Carib peoples before Christopher Columbus sighted Antigua in 1493. English colonists settled the islands in the 17th century, establishing a sugar-based plantation economy […]
Argentina’s territory was home to a diverse range of indigenous peoples, including the Diaguita in the northwest, the Guaraní in the northeast, and various hunter-gatherer groups across the Pampas and Patagonia, before European contact in the early 16th century. Spanish colonization began in the 1500s, with Buenos Aires founded in 1536 and permanently established in […]
Brazil’s story begins with its indigenous peoples, hundreds of distinct groups who had inhabited the region for thousands of years before European contact. Portuguese explorers arrived in 1500, and over the following three centuries Brazil developed into the crown jewel of Portugal’s colonial empire, built first on sugar plantations and later on gold and diamond […]
